Released hostage Agam Goldstein-Almog, 18, whose father and older sister were killed in Kibbutz Kfar Aza on October 7 as she, her mother and two younger brothers were taken hostage, speaks directly to the young female hostages she and her family met while in captivity.
“Did he touch you again, did he enter the shower again, did he touch your injury, did he ask if you want to be set up with someone in Gaza?” Goldstein-Almog recalls asking. “Your body is his, that’s how he acts.”
Goldstein-Almog begs the young women to keep holding on.
“A hundred days, what to say about this round number,” she says. “A hundred days in darkness, in war, alone. My friends, I miss you. I haven’t met your families, but we’ll meet here, in Israel.”
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